Don’t Panic
The Paradise issue of the regular online magazine

Warning: football boots can kill children

Okay, as promised, here’s the second part to this trilogy. To remind you, in part one we asked you to come up with:

…anything you think could reasonably be called an achievement of the Blair government. Try to leave partisan feelings to one side.

This one is a little different. Read More

Catching Phishers
Easier than you think

The Carnival Of Education

A Bill Shankly Quote – No, not that one, another one
Socialists and the World Cup

My attempt to save Margaret Hassan
FO skullduggery courtesy of Georgeous

The Rise of the Neo-Greens
Eco-capitalists on the march

What the heck, all the proper meeja are running one, so here’s The Sharpener’s prizetastic World Cup competition. We’d like to offer the winner two tickets here on 9th July. Sadly, the advertising revenue won’t even stretch to two tickets here, so you’ll have to make do with a voucher for the online retailer of your choice, courtesy of the site’s meagre coffers.

We’ll chuck in a Googlemail account if you don’t have one already, and a chance to guest post here on a subject of your choice, so long as you answer the tie-break question: Posting at The Sharpener is a prize not a punishment because… Read More

Tips for taking penalties
… should you ever step away from the keyboard, that is